Swami Ramdev is the great name connected to Yoga and Ayurved. This person made yoga popular not only in India but also abroad. His yoga practices especially the pranayamas like Kapal Bhati and Anulom Vilom are world famous.
Yoga is well connected to the history of India. By studying Indian history we came to know that in ancient India people were very much involved in the yoga practices. Their life style and work habits were all health promoting- a healthy and pure food to eat and more of physical work which kept them healthy.
But with due course of time our life got totally changed. We started to use our brain more. With the help of all electronic gazettes and the advanced technology our physical labour decreased. Moreover our food habits are also not very healthy as pizza, burgers etc. got available.
At this time swami Ramdev did a tremendous job. He not only popularized yoga by introducing simple yoga practices but also talked about healthy food habits. He is basically from Haryana. He has studied Sanskrit and yoga through gurukul (a yogic monastery). He has also visited Himalayas several times. Then he finally settled in Haridwar.
In 1995 he established Divya Yog Mandir Trust along with Acharya Karamveer. Swami Shankerdevji Maharaj trained him to be a swami. He also has Patanjali Yogpeeth in Bhahadrabad, 20 kms from Haridwar. It is a big complex with OPD of approx. 5000 patients and has a yoga university, a naturopathy department, a hall, a residential complex for patients, a research centre, hostels, a library and a herbal garden etc.
The characteristic feature about Swami Ramdev is that he simplified yoga in such a way that it becomes possible for even an illiterate person to do it. Earlier it was thought that yoga can be done by the advanced practitioners only and that too under the supervision of some experienced teacher. But today Kapal Bhati and Anulom Vilom are being done in every 2nd Indian house.
Through his medicines and Yoga this person has cured a large number of persons. The basic mode of action of his treatment plan is to regulate the metabolism of the body. Today Swami ji has a huge fan following. His popularity can be judged from this fact that after listening to Ramdev ji people stopped the use of soft drinks as it was said that these drinks had pesticides. This affected the companies so badly that they made the film stars to do campaign for their products and to clear that their soft drinks didn’t have any pesticides.
Swami Ramdev was also accused of using the bones of animals and humans in his medicines. Then all his followers including many politicians like Sharad Pawar, Mulayam Singh Yadav, and Ambika Soni came out in his support.
Today he is so popular that his camps are being held not only in India but also abroad.
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